Secular trends in monitors of reproductive hazard

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 417-421

  James, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ESTROGEN;

ADULT; ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; CRYPTORCHISM; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENT; ESTRIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS CANCER;

EID: 0030913989     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.3.417     Document Type: Short Survey

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